Senior Wednesday
1:30 p.m.
Admission: $4 (plus tax)
Located in the Kemper Creative Learning Studio
Water: Crisis in Kansas
January 27
Exploration Place’s Exploring Our Only Home gallery will get a face-lift, including a new aquifer interactive. Give vital feedback that will be used in this element’s development, as you learn about aquifers and groundwater from Susan Erlenwein, Director of Sedgwick County Environmental Resources.
Special Series: Spring of Sounds
Discover how the instrument that revolutionized music - the guitar - plays a role in our community’s culture from special guests including:
February 24
Kansas Bluegrass Association
March 23
Wichita Blues Society
April 27
Wichita Guitar Society presents Richard Johnson and John Francis
Health and Wellness
May 25
Find out how you can find yourself active and healthy in a fast-paced world, while also protecting your spine, joints and muscles.

Saturday, April 9
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Create electrical circuits to assemble a doodling robot with blinking lights and whizzing motors. Invent and program your own musical instruments! Encounter all this and more with WSU Engineering Students and Wallace Scholars as they guide you to complete these challenges.
Included in general museum admission, free for members.

It’s Alive!
Experience the craft and expertise behind metal casting with metal artist Dean Day. Hear about works of art and engineering that make the inanimate come alive.
Admission: $4 (plus tax)
Located in the Kemper Creative Learning Studio

Ancient Reptiles
Tear into interesting facts about the mighty pteranodon, the Flying State Fossil of Kansas, with paleontologist and author, Mike Everhart.
Admission: $4 (plus tax)
Located in the Kemper Creative Learning Studio

Keeping Nutrition and Exercise Fun
Get the latest information and tips on how you can keep eating and exercising fun, as your abilities and needs change. Presented by Joy Sloan, Community Health Nurse and Certified
Diabetes Educator with Central Plains Area Agency on Aging.
Admission: $4 (plus tax)
Located in the Kemper Creative Learning Studio

Tech Talk
Meet students in the WSU Human Factors Ergonomic Society. Review their research that aims to make it easier and safer for people to use technology every day.
Admission: $4 (plus tax)
Located in the Kemper Creative Learning Studio

Family Engineering Day
Saturday, April 8, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Build a robot that can doodle and create electrical circuits to make blinking lights and whizzing motors. Discover the fun of engineering with WSU Engineering Students and Wallace Scholars, who will guide you to complete these challenges.
Included in general museum admission, free for members.

The Science of Hero Power
June 28
Presented by Southwestern College’s Dr. Pat Ross Some heroes embody fascinating science and engineering phenomena. Investigate these characters and meet some of the lesser known, science-based heroes of the 1960s.
American Symbolism: Captain America and Superman
July 26
Presented by Darren Defrain Unearth our nation’s identity with Captain America from Marvel Comics and and Superman from DC Comics as ideals.
Heroes on the Radio
August 23
Become a character you love as you pretend to be one of them on the radio, similar to classic serials you may have heard when you were a child.
Graphic Novels
September 27
Presented by Darren Defrain Get the scoop about the influences of graphic novels and their important place in historical references and humanity.
Villains
October 25
A hero is nothing without a villain. Using the same science and engineering as heroes, these nefarious icons use science and engineering for evil instead of good.

Senior Expo
Thursday, Sept. 28 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
In partnership with the Central Plains Agency on Aging Seniors ages 55 and older, along with their caretakers, will get free admission and find valuable information from more than 130 vendors